Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
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Tom Cruise is one of the most wonderful, kind, and generous men that I've ever met.
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The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.
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The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.
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With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
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I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
